Andrey Kurkov: Ukraine — Memories for the future
The Wergeland Lecture 2026Andrey Kurkov is one of Ukraine’s most central cultural and literary ambassadors. With titles such as Death and the Penguin and Grey Bees, he has gained readers across the wo...
15 Maj 54min
Feminism in Ukrainian: Oksana Zabuzhko and Lotta Elstad
Oksana Zabuzhko is one of the central writers of Ukraine’s post-Soviet generation. In 1996, she caused great controversy with her debut novel, Field Work in Ukrainian Sex, in which she challenged the ...
4 Maj 1h 1min
The Tsar Dynasty and the Mad Monk: Anthony Beevor and Erika Fatland
Few historians can match the position of British Anthony Beevor. With his 13 historical book son recent European history, he has become one of the most respected and read writers of history. Especiall...
27 Apr 1h 6min
A Love Story: Siri Hustvedt and Marte Spurkland
After 43 years together, author Siri Hustvedt loses her husband, the author Paul Auster, to an aggressive form of cancer. Now there is only Siri left, in a time in which memories, smells and words fro...
13 Apr 1h 2min
A Country Falling Apart: Siri Hustvedt and Karin Haugen
No, reading novels is not a solution to our political miseries. For that organization, active resistance, and harder rhetoric is required. But we need stories.Author Siri Hustvedt said these words dur...
13 Apr 1h 6min
A Women's History. Annabelle Hirsch and Susanne Kaluza
In A History of Women in 101 Objects, author Annabelle Hirsch shows us how the things around us aren’t just objects, but testimonies to a common cultural history and set of values. Hirsch shows how so...
2 Mars 1h
A Secret Family History: Lea Ypi
Albanian Lea Ypi has a talent for combining the personal and the political in history, exploring how we are all shaped by the societies and ideologies surrounding us. In her memoir Free. A Child and a...
23 Feb 57min
Reading the Vikings. Eleanor Barraclough and Tore Skeie
The history of the Vikings is usually told from the top down, through powerful characters such as chiefs, commanders and royalty, with raids, looting and war at the centre of the narrative. But what a...
12 Jan 48min
